105, 106, 107

Saturday I learned about the differences in mattress sizes. Go here to see a chart.

Sunday I learned how to spell "Sodom and Gomorrah." Give me a break, that counts. I was looking it up for the LOL Testament.

Today I learned about the Pool at Highlands Park here in Westerville. Swimming!

103, 104

Yesterday, unfortunately, I learned about scabies. Here is a fact sheet on scabies. Scabies are gross. You can have them for weeks before you even know they're there. They poop, fornicate, and lay eggs in you. Fortunately they are easy to kill.

Today I learned about Elmyra from Tiny Toons. Remember her? I learned about her because I was talking about how I smoosh the hell out of my cats until they run away from me. I can't help that they are fat and squishy. Anyway, Elmyra's name was Elmyra Duff, which was a takeoff on Elmer Fudd...Elmyra=Elmer, and "Duff" is "Fudd" said backward. I never knew that.

102

According to the movie Jesus Camp, 75% of homeschooled children in America are Evangelical Christians. I have such a thing against homeschooling. I know that there are some good reasons for it; however the vast majority of people who homeschool are not doing it for those reasons but for other, scarier reasons. Brainwashy reasons, in my opinion.

101

CD101 (WWCD, 101.1 FM) began broadcasting on August 20, 1990. The first song they ever played was "Hello Hello Hello Hello Hello (Petrol)," by Something Happens.

I have been listening to CD101 my entire "adult" life (10 years?). I no longer have any idea how cool or uncool it is; I no longer care. That shit is part of who I am, and I don't say that lightly.

Ninety nine, One hundred

Today I learned about Eskimo kisses. Apparently Inuit people actually do/did this. It was just a greeting that was used because most skin was covered except for the nose and eyes. There are...a lot of people out there who I wouldn't want to rub noses with.

I also learned that basically all the stores at Easton close at 6 on Memorial Day (not Macy's!), which is dumb. I thought that Memorial Day was like a big shopping type holiday. There are always Memorial Day sales and everything. But everything was closed, and I didn't even see anything about it on their holiday hours section of the web site, even though I looked yesterday. Yet again I am foiled in my attempts to eat my weight in Cheryl's frosted triple chocolate cookies.

Ninety eight

Today I learned on the Food Network that Chinese take-out containers were originally oyster pails. Oysters were cheaper and more plentiful than they are today, so people would buy them and take them home in those little white containers. When oysters were overharvested and got more expensive, oyster pails were re-marketed as containers for Chinese food. Yum.

Ninety six, Ninety seven

I really could use a break from this blog. I'm not going to take one, I'm just saying I could use one. I'm learning as much as ever but sometimes it wears on me to have to remember what it was, where I read about it, etc. Aaaanyway...

1.) I learned about the word "bunny." I wondered where it came from, because it's really not similar at all the the word "rabbit." At least, say, "kitty" and "cat" are somewhat close-sounding. Well it's a really old word and it may be related to the "bun" hairstyle, so like, the little bunny tail is like a bun? Hehe. It also was a term for a pretty woman or young girl.

2.) I learned about something called "polymorphous light eruption" which sounds sort of like what I have as far as getting a rash in the sun, but also kind of not. I'm almost positive that mine's triggered by cosmetics (ie, lotion) but I'm not sure. It sucks, I'm sure of that.